How To Stay Sustainable With Producing Paper Books? Examining environmentally friendly book printing demonstrates the significant influence the publishing industry has on the environment. Offices consume a lot of paper—more…
The universe of The Fragile Threads of Power is the same as that of the Darker qShade of Magic series, and fans will be able to get back there as…
Dragons Love Tacos Summary Among all the picture books ever created, this is among my favorites! FOR WHAT ENDANG? It features tacos and cute, humorous dragons—not the menacing type. Nobody…
HOME BEFORE DARK By Riley Sager 384 pp. Dutton. $27. Maggie Holt was famous as a kid — famous because her father, Ewan, wrote a blockbuster best seller chronicling the family’s experience living…
ALICE KNOTTBy Blake Butler Blake Butler’s fourth novel opens with a surreal scene, caught on video, in which a real piece of art is being systematically obliterated: Two anonymous figures remove…
IMPERFECT WOMENBy Araminta Hall As unkind as the three main characters of Araminta Hall’s “Imperfect Women” can be to one another — envious, judgmental, competitive and spiteful — their internecine meanness…
EYEWITNESS On June 13, 2018, Jacob Soboroff, a correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, prepared to visit Casa Padre, a former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, where nearly 1,500 migrant boys,…
THE INDOMITABLE FLORENCE FINCHThe Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWsBy Robert J. Mrazek Luckily, Carl Engelhart kept a journal. As a prisoner of…
CHASING THE LIGHTWriting, Directing, and Surviving “Platoon,” “Midnight Express,” “Scarface,” “Salvador,” and the Movie GameBy Oliver Stone Whenever Oliver Stone makes movies about real people, he ends up in hot water.…
TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACYThe Seductive Lure of AuthoritarianismBy Anne Applebaum Even before the coronavirus began to test our social order, the world was experiencing another plague, a pandemic of authoritarianism. Over the…
Everyone knows you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but many of us do it anyway. In the case of Joan Bauer’s 14th novel, RAISING LUMIE (Viking,…
Born in Sacramento in 1974, Adrian Tomine has gone from “the boy wonder of mini-comics” (per Daniel Clowes) to master of the form, and for the past 20 years his…
